Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten (or so) Books I Read in 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Read in 2015. I pulled up my Goodreads stats for 2015… and discovered that I gave 5-star ratings to 48 books.

Granted, some of these were re-reads (A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein) or audiobook versions of classics I read long ago (all the works of Jane Austen), but still, it’s kind of thrilling to see how many books I truly loved in 2015!

For the purposes of this list, I’m narrowing it down to the best of the bunch, excluding re-reads and graphic novels, and probably leaving out some of the books I’ve already raved about ad infinitum. In no particular order, here are the best of the bunch:

Note: If you want to know more about any of the books mentioned here, click on the links to see my reviews.

What were you favorite books from 2015? Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10… or 15!

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What a great list! I still want to read a few of these that I haven’t already. I actually was on hold for a long time to get Inside the O’Brien’s, but when my name came up I was in the middle of reading a chunkster. I will have to see if I can get my hands on it now.

All the Light We Cannot See made my honourable mentions list 🙂 I think I mentioned it before but I’m glad you enjoyed The Light in the Ruins and The Bookseller–both are on my TBR pile 🙂 And I really want to read Our Souls at Night–maybe next year? Great list, Lisa! 😀

Thanks! All the Light was such a good read, and I especially enjoyed it because it led to some great book group conversations. Our Souls at Night is a quick book (less than 200 pages, I think), but it’s just so beautiful. 🙂

I read All the light we cannot see last year and it was one of my favorite books from last year. Seeing it on your list makes me think that I need to reread it. I read The Uninvited by Cat Winters this year and I loved it. I need to read more of her stuff. Awesome list.

I only delved in to Lisa Genova’s writing this year with Still Alice, but I’m keen to read more of her works. Seeing one as a top 10 (or 15) of the year is quite reassuring and makes we want to check out more of her work asap – Still Alice was so well written!

I have The Marvels sitting on my TBR currently, added not too long ago, and I can’t wait to get stuck in to that one.

Thank you! I’ve read one other Lisa Genova books (Left Neglected – fascinating!), and I’m looking forward to reading Still Alice in the coming year. The Marvels is just wonderful — I hope you enjoy it!

I adored The Uninvited. What an ending! Have you read In the Shadow of Blackbirds yet? That’s my second favorite of hers. 🙂 And yay for The Marvels! I think that was one of the hidden gems of the year.

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